The Chime chairman's advertising and PR empire continues to grow ? but he has attracted criticism for some of his clients
Job: chairman, Chime Communications
Age: 69
Industry: public relations
Revenue: �299.8m
Staff: 1,249
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Lord Bell has just recovered from a heart bypass operation, but the veteran ad and PR man remains as influential as ever as a commentator and businessman.
This year the company he chairs, Chime Communications, reported a 14% rise in annual profits to �21.2m and he said he expects "continued growth".
But Tim Bell, as he is perhaps more widely known, also came under fire earlier this year over Chime's main PR company Bell Pottinger's work for the Egypt's ministry of information and Bahrain's economic development board following the uprisings in those countries.
He delivered a robust response to his critics on the Today programme, telling the BBC that it has only got to "part of the truth", adding for good measure: "I think the BBC, which has 10 times the resources of everyone else, should try harder."
Bell helped found Saatchi & Saatchi in 1970, and as international chairman he helped take the company into its position as the first British number one worldwide advertising agency in 1981, running three successive Conservative party campaigns including the celebrated "Labour isn't working" poster in 1978.
He was awarded a knighthood in 1990 by Lady Thatcher in her resignation honours list, and a peerage in 1998 by Tony Blair.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/24/lord-bell-mediaguardian-100-2011
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